Excerpt from The Old Field Officer, or the Military and Sporting Adventures of Major Worthington, Vol. 1 of 2
My late excellent friend, Major Worthington, (I am not permitted to give his real name,) was a very distinguished officer.
I employ the word "distinguished" in its most extensive signification. It is a very ill-used epithet. Editors of newspapers, general officers who write despatches, and military biographers, press it into their service to extol the qualities of heroes whose highest claim to the title is based upon the circumstance of the their having half a dozen bars or clasps attached to their Peninsular medal - as if a man was distinguished above his fellows by standing with his Company to be shot at upon the plains of Salamanca and Vittoria; or rushing, against his will, up the breaches at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajos!
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